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Guy Steele; Digital Press, first edition 1984, second edition 1990, .

In this greatly expanded edition of the defacto standard, you'll learn about the nearly 200 changes already made since original publication - and find out about gray areas likely to be revised later. Written by the Vice- Chairman of X3J13 (the ANSI committee responsible for the standardization of Common Lisp) and co-developer of the language itself, the new edition contains the entire text of the first edition plus six completely new chapters.

This book has been mentioned in the following pages of the Jargon File: Aluminum Book.

Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman. Addison-Wesley 1986; .

Also known as the ‘Red Dragon Book’ because of the cover design featuring a dragon labeled ‘complexity of compiler design’ and a knight bearing the lance ‘LALR parser generator’ among his other trappings.

From the back cover -- This introduction to compilers is the direct descendant of the well-known book by Aho and Ullman, Principles Of Compiler Design ( ). The authors present updated coverage of compilers based on research and techniques that have been developed in the field over the past few years. The book provides a thorough introduction to compiler design and covers topics such as context-free grammars, fine state machines, and syntax-directed translation.

This book has been mentioned in the following pages of the Jargon File: Dragon Book.

Katie Hafner. John Markoff; Simon & Schuster. Copyright © 1991. .

This book gathers narratives about the careers of three notorious crackers into a clear-eyed but sympathetic portrait of hackerdom's dark side. The principals are Kevin Mitnick, “Pengo” and “Hagbard” of the Chaos Computer Club, and Robert T. Morris (see RTM, sense 2). Markoff and Hafner focus as much on their psychologies and motivations as on the details of their exploits, but don't slight the latter. The result is a balanced and fascinating account, particularly useful when read immediately before or after Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg. It is especially instructive to compare RTM, a true hacker who blundered, with the sociopathic phone-freak Mitnick and the alienated, drug-addled crackers who made the Chaos Club notorious. The gulf between wizard and wannabee has seldom been made more obvious.

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Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides; Addison-Wesley 1995. .

From the Preface -- This book isn't an introduction to object-oriented technology or design. Many books already do a good job of that...this isn't an advanced treatise either. It's a book of design patterns that describe simple and elegant solutions to specific problems in object-oriented software design... Once you understand the design patterns and have had an "Aha!" (and not just a "Huh?" experience with them, you won't ever think about object-oriented design in the same way. You'll have insights that can make your own designs more flexible, modular, reusable, and understandable, which is why you're interested in object-oriented technology in the first place, right?

This book has been mentioned in the following pages of the Jargon File: Gang of Four.

Eric Drexler; Anchor/Doubleday; .

This brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter. Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment, and makes astounding yet well-founded projections for the future.

This book has been mentioned in the following pages of the Jargon File: nanotechnology.